Combined tuck marker and folder.



W. R. PARSONS.

COMBINED TUOK MARKER AND FOLDER.

- APPLICATION FILED rmms, 1905. nnmzwnnme. 27,1908.

920,081 Patented Apr. 27, 1909.

. UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WINSLOW R. PARSONS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO CIIICAGO TITLE &TRUST COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

COMBINED TUCK MARKER AND FOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 27, 1909.

Application filed February 25, 1905, Serial No. 247,235. Renewed August27, 1908. Serial No. 450,503.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WINsLow R. PARSONS, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Tuck Markersand Folders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactspecification.

My invention generally relates to improve ments in combined tuck markersand folders in which heretofore the depressible arm or bar coo eratinwith the knife for marking the tuck has een de ressed by a striking blowfrom the needle ar lever thereof connecting it with the needle bar of asewing machine, and elevated by the operation of a spring, and myinvention particularly relates to improvements in tuck markers such asare shown and described in Letters Patent #766,840 granted me August 9,1904:.

The employment of springs for elevating tuck marker arms from theirdepressed position to make the mark, is objectionable, because in timethe spring inevitably loses its tension and becomes so worn that theretraction of the marker arm from the knife edge becomes so irregularand uncertain, that it is practically impossible to produce perfect tuckmarking, especially in the presence of a rapid operation of the device.

The object ofthis invention is to actuate a tuck marker arm positivelyin both directions and thereby entirely. avoid the objectionable use ofany s ring for its actuation.

The still further 0 ect is to actuate a tuck marker arm by such aconnection with the needle bar lever, that both up and down movement ofthe arm shall be in consonance therewith.

Another object is not only to have such connection between a tuck markerarm and its needle bar lever that the latter shall positively actuatesaid arm in all of its movements, but that a convenient-means may heprovided for locking the tuck marker arm in an elevated position abovethe knife edge and by a device removably securing the needle. barleverwith a standard upon which it is pivoted.

With these ends in View, my invention consists in certain features ofnovelty and construction, and combination and arrangement of parts, bywhich the said objects and certain other objects hereinafter ap caringare attained, all as fully described wit reference to the accompanyingdrawing and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In said drawing, Figure 1 represents a top plan view of a tuck markerand folder, em-

odying my invention, adapted for a Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine.Fig. 2, a similar view of such a tuck marker, adapted for New Home,Singer and other sewing machines. Fig. 3, a similar view, showing theadaption of a tuck marker and folder to a slide plate which may besubstituted for the ordinary slide plate of a sewing machine instead ofattaching it to the presser foot support thereof, as in the structuresabove shown. Fig. 4, a detail enlarged rear elevation showing the meansemployed for locking the marker arm in an elevated position and out ofthe way when using the folder. Fig. 5, a vertical cross section on theline 5, 5 of Fig. 1. 1

Similar numerals of reference indicate the same parts in the severalfigures of the drawings.

1 indicates a flat and may be slightly upwardly curved strip or barprovided at one end with an upturned lug 2, and at its opposite andcreasing end, with a lateral extension 3, having an upturned end notshown, constituting a sharp member or knife, and with which a notchedmarker 4, carried by an arm 5 and forming a laterally extending memberthereof, cooperates to produce a tucking mark or crease on goods passedbetween the knife and the marker at in the usual manner, theconstruction and 006 eration of both of these devices being as sfiown inmy patent before referred to. The marker arm 5 consists of a bar or rodwhich, as shown in Fig. 1, is secured by a pivot 6 to a lug 7, having aright angular extension 8 secured by rivets 9, 9 to the bar 1. Myinvention however includes a marker arm such as is shown in Fig. 2,wherein it is provided with a loop assing through the upturned lug 2and, if c esii'ed, downwardly through a perforation in a folder,consisting of a'bar 10 mounted u on the plate 1 and held in place eitherby t 1e rivets 9, 9 or by projecting the bent end of the arm 5downwardly through a perforation therethrough and if desired, alsothrough the plate 1 and then upsetting the end of arm 5 to clench it tothe plate.

Instead of the U-shaped bend in the marker bar 5, said bar may be formedin a coil and secured to the bar 1, as shown in my former patent. Thefolder bar 10 terminates at its other and free end in a Tshaped portion'11, the prongs 12 of which on each side of said bar, being bent so asto depress them slightly below the under surface of the bar 10.

The device as a whole is secured to the presser foot bar of a sewingmachine in the usual manner, by'mea'n's of a foot-piece 14, having asusual in its horizontal portion, a needle hole 15, which said foot-pieceis secured to aright angular plate or bar 16, the arm 17 ofwhichprojects over the folder bar 10 and is bent downwardly on each side ofthe bar land secured to a parallel bearingplate on the under side of thebar 1 (see Fig. 5) by rivets 19, 19, one ofwhich also secures inposition upon the arm 17, a gage-plate 20, opposing'a corresponding gage21 on the arm 1, whereby the desired adjustment of the marker for wideand narrow tucks is determined and indicated, the bar 1 being held inthis adjustment by a thumb-screw 22 passing throughthe arm 17 andimpinging against the bar 1, which, in turn is impinged against theplate 18, which is the bearing and support for the bard. Also confinedbetween the arm 17 and the plate 18 is a bar 23 provided with a rightangular portion 24:, which, together with lugs 25 at each end thereof,serves as an adjustable guide for the cloth, the said bar 23 being heldin its adjustment by a thumb screw 26 passing through'the bar 17 and'maybe conveniently manipulated by a lug'27 projected upwardly therefrom.

The plate 17 has a right angular projection 28 terminating at its freeend in an upturned lug 29, to which is pivoted the needle bar lever 30bya pivot 31. The needle bar lever is provided with a perforation 32,through which passes the marker arm 5, whichperforation is preferablymade large enough in order to enable the marker arm, after being bent toform, to be passed therethrough when-assembling parts together in acomplete device, and to which end as the marker arm is shownconstructed, the perforation is necessarily of a'diameter so muchgreater than that of the-marker arm at this point of bearing, in theneedle bar lever, that I preferably employ a bushing 33 slipped on tosaid arm, in order to prevent noise otherwise due to the striking of theopposing walls of the needle bar lever against the marker arm when inoperation, which absence of noise is oneof the'results and I may say,objects of my invention.

By the connection of the marker arm with the needle bar lever in theabove described manner, is secured a positive movement of the marker armin both directions throughout that movement, and as a result of whichsprings and other devices with all their obj ectionable features, areentirely dispensed with in the tuck marker. 7 7

Noise necessarily attending the unavoidable striking together of theneedle bar lever and tuck marker, is also avoided by my connection ofthe needle bar lever and marker arm, while at the same time is providedmeans whereby perfect tuckmarking may be continuously secured, and thedurability of the tuck marker increased without adding thereto and onthe contrary reducing its cost, as is apparent when compared in the costof producing and securing'a spring in place for retracting the markerarm, with the cost ofa perforation in theneedle bar'lever and thepassing of the'm-arker-arm therethrough.

Nhen'it is desirable to'use the folder, it is necessary to maintain themarker in an elevated position and to this end and by reason of thedirect connection of the marker arm with the needle bar lever, I amenabled to provide a very simple and efi ectiv'e means (see Fig. 4) byprojecting the needle bar lever rearwardly beyond its pivot and formingaslight bend 34 therein, as shown in Fig. 4, adapted to frictionallyimpinge against the lug 29, to which the needle bar lever ispivotedsuficiently to maintain thelever and the marker arm in the desiredelevated position above referred to, but it will be no departure from myinvention in this respect in this particular sense, to substitute aset-screw therefor passing through the lever projection and impingingagainst the lug upright 29.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

1. A tuck'marker comprising in combination a marker arm, a pivotalsupport there'- for, a needle bar lever permanently connected with saidarm, and positively oscillating said marker arm throughoutits'movements, and a folder and means for locking said marker arm in anelevated position out of the way of said folder, substantially asdescribed.

2. A. tuck marker, comprising in combination, a folder, a needle-barlever and markerarm passing through said lever, a support to which saidarm is pivoted, and means whereby the needle-bar lever andmarker-arm'may both be elevated to a position out of theway of thefolder, substantially as described.

3. A tuck marker comprising in conibination a folder, a forked needlebar lever, a marker arm passing through said lever, a support to whichsaid arm is-pivot'ed, and

means whereby the needle bar lever and marker may both be swung to aposition out of the way of the folder, substantially as described.

' WINSLOW It. PARSONS. Witnesses:

J NO. G. ELLIOTT, MARGARET SREEDER.

